This year, two PROXIDRUGS project leaders, Ivan Đikić and Gerhard Hummer, have been named as Highly Cited Researchers, recognizing their outstanding influence in the life sciences. Ivan Đikić has been awarded for the eighth consecutive year, his research papers have ranked among the most cited from 2014 to 2024 in the two categories “Biology and Biochemistry” and “Molecular Biology and Genetics”, as recorded by Web of Science. Gerhard Hummer has been honored for the third year in a row for...

From 3–7 November, a series of events took place as part of the Friedrich Merz Visiting Professorship, which in 2025 was awarded to Prof. Raymond Deshaies. Enabled by the Merz Foundation and organized by the curatorial team and PROXIDRUGS project leads Maike Windbergs and Stefan Knapp, the programme offered numerous opportunities for scientific exchange and inspiration. Across several dedicated formats, students, researchers, and members of the public were invited to engage with current...

As part of the “BMFTR Initiates – Research with North America” program, the ProxiUS project was approved to start on November 1, 2025. The project is part of the Cluster4Future PROXIDRUGS and based at Goethe University Frankfurt. Over the next two years, it will enable the cluster to establish scientific exchange and outreach programs with North America and to strengthen transatlantic collaboration in a sustainable way. The goal is to build collaborations with researchers at the University of...